Saint Patrick’s Catholic Primary School

'We arise today, to learn, love and grow through Jesus.’
PE and Sports Premium Funding
Schools have a central role to play in supporting all children and young people to live healthy active lives. This is particularly true of primary school where the foundations of positive and enjoyable participation in regular physical activity should be established.
Crucial to achieving this is ensuring that pupils have access to at least 30 minutes of physical activity during the school day, alongside high-quality PE provision taught by confident and knowledgeable teachers and opportunities to experience and participate in a wide range of sports and physical activities. PE and sport premium grant funding should be used by schools towards these aims.
2023/2024 School Year
The 2023-2024 PE and Sport premium grant was spent as follows:
- On the promotion and development of the wellbeing walk
- To train play leaders and award them with a badge and termly incentives
- To provide play leaders with additional sports equipment
- On lunchtime activity resources
- Continued employment of a specialist sports coach to work alongside staff to co-deliver PE sessions and for all staff to receive weekly CPD
- To offer an enriching outdoor adventure residential to Year 6 children
- To continue to offer swimming lessons to Year 3 and Year 6 children
- To continue to offer free Bikeability sessions to Year 6 children to provide them with an opportunity to learn to confidently ride a bike on roads safely
- To provide children with the opportunities to represent their year groups as part of inter and intra school competitions
- To offer SEND pupils further physical activity opportunities through Just Join in festivals
- To continue to offer lunch time games and activities to all year groups embedding skills learnt in PE lessons to offer daily physical activity
- To invest in external companies to provide a host of after school clubs – i.e., Skill Wise
- To engage in opportunities to enable us as a school to apply for the Schools Games Award
2022/2023 School Year
The school received a total grant of £18'610. This is being spent as follows:
- To buy into and roll out the Get Set 4 PE scheme
- To buy into a vast range of sports equipment to support the PE units outlined in the curriculum coverage
- To convert the infant playground into an Astro turf arena suitable for PE lessons, lunchtime activities, intra and interschool competitions and to host sports day on
- Employment of a specialist sports coach to work alongside staff to deliver quality P.E sessions and for all staff to receive CPD opportunities
- To offer an enriching outdoor adventure residential to Year 6 children at the end of the academic year
- To train up playleaders and offer incentives
- To continue to offer swimming lessons to Year 3 and Year 6 pupils
- To continue to offer free Bikeability sessions to year 6 pupils to provide them the opportunity to learn to confidently ride a bike on pupil roads safely
- To provide children opportunities to represent their year groups as part of intra and inter school competitions and challenges
- To continue to offer lunchtime games and activities to all year groups embedding skills learnt in PE lessons to offer daily physical activity
- On in-school interventions to target inactive and/or vulnerable children
- To offer SEND pupils further physical activity opportunities through Just Join In festivals
- To invest in early years outdoor provision to support physical development opportunities
- To invest in external companies to provide sports related after school clubs to children across the early years and key stages
- To invest in external services such as Commando Jo with a focus on growth mindset
2021/2022 School Year
The school received a total grant of £18'590. This is being spent as follows:
- Continue to embed the use of iPEP P.E scheme in P.E lessons
- Ensuring equipment is available to deliver the iPEP scheme effectively throughout school
- Employment of a specialist sports coach to work alongside staff to deliver quality P.E sessions and for all staff to receive CPD opportunities
- The purchasing of equipment to successively delivery extra-curricular clubs and lunchtime playground activities
- To invest in early years equipment to support physical development opportunities
- To offer swimming lessons to Year 3 and Year 6 pupils
- To offer free Bikeability sessions to year 6 pupils to provide them the opportunity to learn to confidently ride a bike on pupil roads safely
- To provide children opportunities to represent their year groups as part of intra and inter school competitions and challenges
- To continue to offer lunchtime games and activities to all year groups embedding skills learnt in PE lessons
- On in-school interventions to target inactive and/or vulnerable children
- To offer SEND pupils further physical activity opportunities through Just Join In festivals